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Soul searching

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WINDS OF FATE
One ship drives east and another drives west,
With the self-same winds that blow,
‘Tis the set of the sails
And not the gales
That tell them the way to go.
Like the winds of the sea are the winds of fate,
As we voyage along through life,
‘Tis the set of the soul
That decides its goal
And not the calm or the strife.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

The voyage of life is described in the above poem by Ella Wheeler Wilcox. My friend from the Glen, Haze, drew my attention to it and we have been discussing it across our posterous blog spaces.

Haze raises some philosophical questions. Is our life pre-planned?
Is it divinely guided?
Is there such a thing as destiny?
Do we have free will?

My answers to all of the above would centre on belief, its presence within us, and the weight it has within our being.
I believe that our life is pre-planned.
I believe it is divinely guided.
I believe that our destiny is set at or before birth.
I believe that free will is ours if we wish it.

My sense of belief has been tested by life and its range of experiences. I would call it my soul, the spirit which is at the core of my being. I know it is there and have had moments when I have been intimate with it.

I agree with Ella Wilcox’s statement:-
‘Tis the set of the soul
That decides its goal
And not the calm or the strife

What is outside our being can and does influence us, but I believe that our soul is what makes us tick, the essence of life that courses through our veins. There is no need to search for it. It is there. Becoming intimate with it brings us to our core, to the place where oneness is tangible-wholeness a magnificent all-encompassing cloak. To move within is a spiritual journey, one that requires the mind to opt out and release the place and space for the soul to show itself.

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  1. Hazel Cowan Avatar
    Hazel Cowan

    Your views are founded on a spiritual awareness of a divinity, which you feel is within you as you travel through life. Your deep faith is a precious gift, which makes me fear to comment. I don’t want to appear to be destructive.
    My restless mind always has to address the how and why. I realise that the existence of a God can’t be proved or disproved by scientific or any other method. It is not possible to establish any truth by argument alone.
    An acceptance that faith is a gift from a divinity, leads to the question of why are some given this gift and not others. What are the selection procedures?
    My journey is full of obstacles, and I haven’t reached the place that T. S. Elliot described when he wrote,”The end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started, and know the place for the first time.”

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  2. Rachel Chisholm Avatar
    Rachel Chisholm

    You should not fear to comment! The spiritual awareness that I have was hard won. It will not be easily destroyed!! Your restlessness, I can empathise with. I was very much a restless spirit for too many years. I questioned why and how and then after driving myself into a frenzy, let go. I found peacefulness that filled me and gave me almost a year of contentment that has not been repeated to the same extent since. Perhaps that was my ‘time’. Perhaps I may never find such peace again, but I experienced it and through it have a quiet faith that tends to keep me positive!There are no selection procedures, I believe that everyone has the gift of faith. The key to selection is acceptance. To accept requires a desire to go inwards, to find the spirit that is within.I do believe that some of that desire may well be inherited. Our direct ancestry can influence the level of desire.I remember when I was ‘searching’. I asked a friend who I knew to be a Christian how I could find a closeness to God. She told me that it was as easy as opening a door, a door that allowed our minds to release the questions and allow the possibility. That was a turning point in my life and my spiritual awareness. I found my inner spirit and sought to nurture it by giving myself ‘quiet’ times on a daily basis. These were times to enter my self- to be with myself and understand myself better. Through prayer, singing, listening to music and silent times, I found myself. I used to have very regular quiet times, now I have them less often, but when I do return to the discipline of them, I find myself again and regain a quietness within that helps me balance myself if that is EVER possible!!!You say that your journey is full of obstacles. We all have them. Do you make them or do other people make them? What are these obstacles? If they are obstacles what are they obstructing you from? If you were to name these obstacles and write them down, would they form a barrier? Write them down. Draw them in a circle. Are you inside or outside the circle? Where would you like to be?Why would you like to be there?Sent from my iPad

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